Sorry! It's been hectic the last few months, what with doing my second professional practice stint for my education degree and also getting assessment done before the uni year finishes up. (Which has now finished. Hooray! So 3 months of glorious holidays for me )Aaand also fitting in time between shifts at work. Life's so tiring these days.

Anyway, unfortunately I've not really had any time or energy to do some writing. Plenty of ideas, just zero amount of pen to paper action. I do also hope to do some more photoshoots. So if anyone knows anyone who'd like to shoot me (with a camera of course ) please forward my deviantART page onto them or theirs/email or whichever to me.

I decided to re-try saving for Canada again as well. So I'm going to be working a hell of a lot more. I'm putting my passport application in tomorrow so fingers crossed it gets accepted!!

That's all I can really think of at the moment. But I'll be around, trying to catch up on all of your deviations mostly. The last couple of months I haven't really had time to read them Slack, but true.

Have a good one kids.

I just realised I surpassed the 5,000 page views mark. Yay!

I'm writing an essay at the moment.. well in between refreshing Facebook and watching random videos on Youtube. Which probably isn't a good thing, seeing as I have another due next week, as well as an exam. Neither of which I have started to study for.

It's times like this I wish our brains had USB ports and we could just store data there to use whenever we needed/wanted. eg. "How to be a Secondary teacher in English and History" *downloads program and transfers it to my brain*

Still yet to do the features... I know, I know. I'll get there.

Anyway, better get back to it. Oh, and I might upload a new photo as a dev ID. Just for kicks.

And there's this girl in the front row that keeps glances back at me with this odd look. I think it's disdain. It's really pissing me off. *glares*

Ciao kiddliwinks

Thanks to being featured in Bahji's and Anondesu's journals recently, I've decided to do what they've both done and do a few features of my own. So I'll chuck in the rules at the end of the journal.

In terms of updating, I've written a couple more poems, but no fiction at the moment. Uni's too hectic and consuming for me to be able to write anything more substantial.


My birthday went really well, I had a great time! My party was fun, didn't end up going to bed til about 4:30AM and had to get up at 9:30AM in time to clean up and get all dolled up to head off to another friend of mine's birthday party that he was having at the horse racecourse on the other side of the city.

I really want to see Studio Ghibli's new film Ponyo On The Cliff By The Sea. It looks so adorable! Also, Disney Pictures are promoting, which I think is a great thing too. I've been introducing people I know to new forms of visual entertainment lately, which is something I've rarely been able to do. Usually it's the other way round. For example, one of my uni friends had never seen Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog so I showed it to him. And now my new housemate is watching Kiki's Delivery Service because he wasn't very aware of Studio Ghibli films.

Anyway, at the moment I can't really think of much more I can babble on about so be sure to comment on this or any of my deviations to receive a feature in my journal.


FEATURE RULES:
1) For each of the 15 first people answering this journal I will put his/her avatar and the three deviations I like from his/her gallery on the list.

2) If you answer, you'll have to do the same in your journal, putting me on the first place, completing this way the list with 15 people. The idea of this is not to get a free feature, it is to spread art around for everyone.

Enjoy my kids!

Unfortunately my computer at home has decided to get very, very sick. So I can't use it at all, and am stuck with using the computer labs at uni whenever possible. I'm pleasantly surprised that my uni computer has decided to allow me to login to dA, considering in the past despite being able to browse the site I've never been able to login due to restrictions. So I'm trying to catch up as much as possible!

Random other stuff that's happening:

I succumbed to the curiosity of reading the Twilight series. I enjoyed it, but was very disappointed with the ending. I won't bore you with the details, but I kinda of wish it had of been a bit more exciting.

I'm hosting my 21st birthday party this Friday (tomorrow). I'm very excited, and slightly nervous as to numbers. I hope lots of friends are able to come, even though I know that it's not quantity but quality that counts. It's just that a party with only 10 people, isn't exactly exciting 21st wise.

And my Canada trip is O-fficially cancelled. Just wasn't able to get up the money in time and find a job. So I've given up. Maybe I could go next year.
However, I am hoping to be able to get tickets to the Soundwave music festival that's on in February. Though tickets go on sale on my actual birthday (26/08), so I'm not sure of how well I'll be able to buy said tickets.

That's roughly about it.. submitted 3 or so more poems so take at those at your leisure. I'm off to buy my party food, decorations and outfit!

Ciao!

Well, I didn't do much of what I said I was going to do writing/reading wise over my month and half holiday break. I go back to uni on the 27th of July, which happens to be my big sister's birthday as well.

I only managed to read a couple more books, and start reading some, but then give up:
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
- The Bride Stripped Bare by Anonymous.
- The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (Got almost half way)
- Confessions of an Ugly Step Sister by Gregory Maguire (Got just over half way)
- The Colour of Magic and Light Fantastic in graphic novel form by Terry Pratchett
- Midnight Pearls by Debbie Vigue`


As for writing, well I didn't do much of that either as those who watch my work may have noticed. Neither did I get to get rid of (and in the nicest possible sense) of all the deviations I'm yet to read. They manage to creep up on me. I managed to get it down to 16 at some point, now it's back to 22. *sigh*


Aside from dA stuff, I managed to achieve some things during my holidays. Found a new place to move into, which is cool. I have to be out of my old place by the 1st of August, so I'll be packing and moving next week, whilst trying to do my first week of uni's classes and study. Fun!
And I decided that I would go see my sister in December for 3 weeks. She moved to Canada at the beginning of the year, so it'll be my first time overseas and the second time seeing snow. Yay! The only downer is that I have to find a way of saving $2000 by the end of November, because we leave on the 29th of November. So I'll hopefully do that somehow!

Oh, and there's actually quite a few TV shows and films I want to see at the moment.
- (500) Days of Summer
- Adam
- Cherry Bomb
- Tin Man (TV mini-series)

And I think there's more. I can't remember the rest.

Oh, oh, and I turn 21 in August. Exciting I know Only if I have a party, it'll be a tiny, low budget one due to the holiday plans. But that's ok, my sister's worth it.

Anyway kids, I reckon I've babbled on enough.